Word: anzio
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Will Lang, veteran of Tunisia, of Salerno, of the Anzio beachhead, went in with the first wave of American infantry (at "a very tough spot," Osborne reported) . . . Reg Ingraham, our naval expert, covered the landings from a warship offshore, then pushed on to Toulon with General Patch's Seventh Army . . . Carl My dans came from Italy to join General de Lattre's fighters in the march on Marseilles (to the best of our knowledge, My dans was the only correspondent with the French forces) . . . and Photographer George Silk flew in from Italy in a British glider which tore...
...Mountbatten, looking fit and showing no trace of an eye injury received in the jungle last spring, told at last why operations in his command had been so maddeningly slow: landing craft allocated to him after the Quebec Conference had been sent instead to the Mediterranean, for landings at Anzio and on the Riviera. Result: he and General "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell (who now sports his full general's four stars for the first time) had had to cut their campaign suit from a remnant...
Last winter the Force turned up in Italy; along the road to Cassino they captured peak after mountain peak. Then they moved to the Anzio beachhead. There for 99 nights they painted their faces black and roamed through the German positions. The diary of a dead German paid them their most cherished tribute: "The black devils are all around us every time we come into the line and we never hear them come...
Married. Pfc. Alton W. Knappen-berger, 20, Nazi-slaying "one man army of Anzio"; and Ruth Eickhoff, 16, his home town sweetheart; in Red Hill, Pa. The Congressional Medal of Honor winner was told to "speak up" when applying for the license, later delayed the marriage ceremony by forgetting the document, had to run back...
...years in jail for failing to register as a German agent, and one of the 28 who were in the sedition trial at Washington, died on March 24 in Italy. Viereck, who disagreed violently with his father's views, had gone through some of the heaviest fighting on the Anzio beachhead...